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I have changed the name of the topic. The original was "Epson P50 ink control".
Hi. I have a little problem with my Epson P50. I print on special A4 sheets and just can't find the right paper type for it. Glossy / Premium Glossy setting pours too much ink, Matte - not enough. I have tried them all. The only good paper type for me was Plain Paper. BUT! Plain paper only lets me print low quality and this is not enough. I need to print on best photo quality.
What are those paper profiles in Epson drivers for exactly? As far as I can tell they instruct printer what ink density is going to take place on my media. But then there is a question, if paper settings control only ink amount, then why do only some paper settings allow to choose highest print quality? What I would really like to do is somehow enable best quality on plain paper setting (maybe a driver hack of some sort?). I contacted Epson support and they told me that they do not recommend using any other paper rather than Epson's. That was all I got from them.
How I have tried to solve this:
1. Installed a program called InkSaver that (in short) let me reduce the ink output by cutting out a % of pixels right before printing. In the end it just made my prints lighter and ugly.
2. Found a software for this printer called PrintFab that is like a replacement driver for Epson's that lets you do a lot of stuff that Epson doesn't (something like a RIP). And it let me control "ink limit". But it mixes colors in a different way so I would need a new icc profile specifically made for it. And it doesn't have a few needed functions that Epson's drivers have.
So far no luck. Does anyone know of any ways to get into Epson paper profiles and edit them a bit? I could bet that on each paper type there is a simple value describing amount of ink that should be placed on media. Something like Plain Paper ink amount + Glossy paper best quality printing combination would be a life saver for me.
I have changed the name of the topic. The original was "Epson P50 ink control".
Hi. I have a little problem with my Epson P50. I print on special A4 sheets and just can't find the right paper type for it. Glossy / Premium Glossy setting pours too much ink, Matte - not enough. I have tried them all. The only good paper type for me was Plain Paper. BUT! Plain paper only lets me print low quality and this is not enough. I need to print on best photo quality.
What are those paper profiles in Epson drivers for exactly? As far as I can tell they instruct printer what ink density is going to take place on my media. But then there is a question, if paper settings control only ink amount, then why do only some paper settings allow to choose highest print quality? What I would really like to do is somehow enable best quality on plain paper setting (maybe a driver hack of some sort?). I contacted Epson support and they told me that they do not recommend using any other paper rather than Epson's. That was all I got from them.
How I have tried to solve this:
1. Installed a program called InkSaver that (in short) let me reduce the ink output by cutting out a % of pixels right before printing. In the end it just made my prints lighter and ugly.
2. Found a software for this printer called PrintFab that is like a replacement driver for Epson's that lets you do a lot of stuff that Epson doesn't (something like a RIP). And it let me control "ink limit". But it mixes colors in a different way so I would need a new icc profile specifically made for it. And it doesn't have a few needed functions that Epson's drivers have.
So far no luck. Does anyone know of any ways to get into Epson paper profiles and edit them a bit? I could bet that on each paper type there is a simple value describing amount of ink that should be placed on media. Something like Plain Paper ink amount + Glossy paper best quality printing combination would be a life saver for me.